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Paralyzing amounts of snow are continuing to smother towns along the eastern shores of the Great Lakes as a record-breaking lake-effect snowstorm blasts the region, prompting major road closures ...
The Jefferson County, New York, sheriff’s office, near Lake Ontario, which is under a state of emergency, issued a “no unnecessary travel” advisory urging travelers to stay off the roads.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Saturday that 11 counties, including the Buffalo area in Erie County, are in a state of emergency. PHOTO: Snow forecast through Monday. (ABC News)
The morning of December 23, the city of Niagara Falls, New York, issued a travel ban with exceptions for essential travel. [118] Erie County, NY, which includes the city of Buffalo, followed suit shortly afterwards. [119] As of the morning of December 27, the travel ban remained in effect only for Buffalo. [120]
A travel ban has been lifted in New York’s Erie County, days after it was put into place as a deadly blizzard swept across the region, at times reducing Travel ban lifted in Erie County as road ...
The total death toll for the state was 47. A travel ban was put in effect for the Buffalo area on December 23 at 9:30 a.m. and remained in effect until December 29 at 12:01 a.m. [23] [24] On December 27, state and military police were sent to Buffalo to enforce the driving ban to enable snow-clearing efforts to progress. [25]
A full commercial travel ban was issued for multiple highways in New York. [25] [26] Thundersnow was also recorded when the snowstorm hit, with several cars and trucks stuck in the snow. [27] At 66 inches (170 cm) in a single day, Orchard Park set a record for most snow in a single day, [28] with the total snowfall being 77 in (200 cm). [1]
The weather service in Buffalo has a lake-effect snow warning in place for Chautauqua County, New York, through Monday at 7 p.m. Additional accumulations of 1 foot to 2 feet are possible in the ...